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It's in the site guidelines for flaggers not to mention their flagging in the comments. Maybe there should be a separate area where they could put a reason though.

Good point. What's the bar to a post getting marked "flagged" and removed from the front page? A single user flags? Two? Five? Up to the mods?

Who would flag a post like this? I would guess either people who are annoyed by the omnipresence of SARS-Cov2/COVID-19 coverage or people in denial.

I'm with you here. I found this article useful and informative. Why is this being flagged?

Because this is the daily covid panic submission.

Panicking is stupid, precautions are not.